{"id":25763,"date":"2013-11-27T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=25763"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T22:23:14","slug":"harlem-biospace-home-new-innovative-emerging-medical-research-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=25763","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Biospace: Home to new innovative emerging medical research startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-27-at-5.00.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25773\" alt=\"harlem biospace via harlemcondolife\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Screen-shot-2013-11-27-at-5.00.59-PM.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen health care focussed startups have settled inside the new Harlem Biospace, on W. 127th St.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomberg administration contributed $626,000 and partnered with Columbia University biomedical engineering professor Sam Sia for the balance of the funding.<\/p>\n<p>Companies include an allergy-testing company, which uses a simple cheek swab to analyze a sneeze; a pharmaceutical drug maker that\u2019s trying to compel cancer cells to \u201ccommit suicide,\u201d and inventors developing an MRI-styled device for small animals,\u00a0Invivo Analytics, which uses imaging to study how diseases ravage mice during pharmaceutical testing.<\/p>\n<p>The facility includes access to a laboratory outfitted with advanced equipment to grow cells, test tissue and analyze toxins; free legal advice from biotech law firm Wilmer Hale; access to topnotch tools and mentors.<\/p>\n<p>About Harlem Biospace<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harlem Biospace (Hb) is a new biotech incubator, the first of its kind in New York City, to offer affordable shared wet-lab space for competitively-selected entrants<\/li>\n<li>Situated at the heart of\u00a0three academic campuses\u00a0(Columbia University, City College of New York, and future Columbia Manhattanville campus), with easy access to to other major universities and the vibrancy of New York City via the A,\u00a0B,\u00a0C,\u00a0D\u00a0and\u00a01\u00a0trains,\u00a0eight bus lines, and only three blocks from the Hudson River bike trail\u00a0and\u00a0West Side Highway<\/li>\n<li>Located in the old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefactorydistrict.com\/the-district\/\" target=\"_blank\">Factory District<\/a>\u00a0of Harlem, an exciting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/06\/realestate\/commercial\/big-retailers-attracted-to-harlems-main-shopping-hub.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">new<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323976104578197743447997324.html\" target=\"_blank\">development<\/a>\u00a0attracting technology companies and start-ups, Hb will be housed in the Sweets Building, a former laboratory for confectionery research located at 423 West 127th Street<\/li>\n<li>Walking distance to the world-famous Red Rooster, the legendary Apollo Theater, Michelin-recommended Jin Ramen, Maison Harlem, multiple Starbucks, and many\u00a0high-quality independent restaurants and coffee shops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/uptown\/city-biotech-incubator-lab-opens-harlem-article-1.1530405\">EXCLUSIVE: Harlem Biospace unveils its new crop of medical research startups\u00a0 &#8211; NY Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen health care focussed startups have settled inside the new Harlem Biospace, on W. 127th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179,12756786,186,6,124715920],"tags":[124716195,124718165,124716189,124716187,124715660,124716191,241393,124716186,124716183,124716192,124716185,124716190,124716196,124715070,124716194,124718170,124716188,21311,124716184,124716193,1563695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}